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John, thanks for doing this. Thanks for the invitation. So a lot of us have been trying to figure out how

we got into this war with Iran. I think the reporting is clear at this point that there was really

nobody at the White

House or in the American intelligence community who was telling the president, yeah, this is

going to be really easy. But he came to that conclusion anyway. There's a lot of speculation as to

as to why. But tell us about the process. You're the president.

You're trying to figure out what's going to happen if you declare war on this country.

How do you find that information?

Where does that come from?

Well, I can tell you how President George H.W. Bush did it and how President George W. Bush did it.

It's a process.

Right. You have to... Formal.

Formal process. You have to commission estimates from the intelligence community.

You commission intelligence, finished intelligence reports from the CIA's Directorate of

Intelligence. You get an idea of what the State Department is thinking about it.

You're talking to your secretaries of state and defense, the National Security Advisor.

But then, and I think this is even as important, you need to talk to your friends and allies.

You need to know what the European countries are saying or seeing.

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